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Lean In

Unabridged Audiobook

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Date: March 2013

Duration: 6 hours 29 minutes

Summary:

Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged with it at the highest levels throughout their lives.

Lean In--Sheryl Sandberg's provocative, inspiring book about women and power--grew out of an electrifying TED talk Sandberg gave in 2010, in which she expressed her concern that progress for women in achieving major leadership positions had stalled. The talk became a phenomenon and has since been viewed nearly two million times. In Lean In, she fuses humorous personal anecdotes, singular lessons on confidence and leadership, and practical advice for women based on research, data, her own experiences, and the experiences of other women of all ages. Sandberg has an uncanny gift for cutting through layers of ambiguity that surround working women, and in Lean In she grapples, piercingly, with the great questions of modern life. Her message to women is overwhelmingly positive. She is a trailblazing model for the ideas she so passionately espouses, and she's on the pulse of a topic that has never been more relevant.

From the Hardcover edition.

Advance Praise for Lean In:

"Sheryl provides practical suggestions for managing and overcoming the challenges that arise on the 'jungle gym' of career advancement. I nodded my head in agreement and laughed out loud as I read these pages. Lean In is a superb, witty, candid, and meaningful read for women (and men) of all generations."
-Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state

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Lisa McQuade

Great book and a must read for women both working outside the home and inside the home

Hilori Kaloti

Fantastic book for women at all stages of their career. Definitely recommend it for women but also for men to understand the realities of the world of women

M K

This is an excellent book that aims to not only empower women, but to give men confidence that it\'s okay and right to empower women, too. The book is filled with anecdotes and statistics that will probably strike a chord with most women who listen to it--it\'s nice to finally have a firm way to describe some of the feelings and anxieties that I\'ve experienced throughout a lot of my life. This book is not at all about putting men down. It\'s about encouraging women to raise up and, through a more thorough and critical understanding of the sociological obstacles they need to break down (both inside and out), feel empowered to pursue opportunities with equal confidence as their male counterparts.
The narrator\'s voice is much younger-sounding than I was expecting. Seeing as it\'s not uncommon these days for authors to narrate their own books (especially biographies/memoirs) I was a little let down that Sandberg didn\'t narrate it herself; however, Elisa Donovan does an excellent job.

Anni Powers

Excellent. I will be recommending this to every woman I know. I particularly enjoyed the insights related to choosing a partner who is supportive-great advice for young women!!